Learning lyrics: To sing or not to sing?

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 242-253

  Racette, Amélie ^a   Peretz, Isabelle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; LYRICS; MALE; MUSICIAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; RECALL; SINGING; SKILL; SPEECH; TASK PERFORMANCE; UNIVERSITY STUDENT; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 34250809495     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03193445     Document Type: Article

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